Site-specific public installation, mixed material, graffiti, The project is located in Lidu, Chaoyang, Beijing where migrant workers live in nearby thermal wells. Material: workers' gloves, nails, foam filler, paints / 3.84 m * 3.20 m / 05 2016. This project reflects on the artist's personal encounter with a woman living in a city well in 2011 and refers to the initial news coverage of 'The Thermal Well Dwelling Incident in Beijing’ in 2013. On a midnight stroll on December 18th, 2011, I found myself walking alone. In the quiet obscurity, I chanced upon an elderly woman whose head and shoulders had emerged briefly from a city well before retreating into its depths. This encounter felt surreal and confounding, as I had no prior knowledge of people inhabiting such wells. It lingered in my memory, unverified and often resembling an illusion or a distant recollection. The installation is set in the area where I encountered that woman. It serves as a manifestation of personal experience at odds with public knowledge. Facts can often obscure other facts, and some stories can drown out others. Society tends to rely on generalized judgments of an era, often missing the realities of marginalized groups hidden beneath the veneer of urbanization and economic prosperity. The media's focus on China's urbanization and economic growth has, to some extent, overshadowed the existence of unfortunate individuals in the picture. Reports on Beijing's Well Dwellers may surprise news readers, but these individual reports, lacking follow-ups, quickly fade from mainstream discussions. The public media gravitates our attention toward the more vivid and ostentatious aspects of our society. The marginalized reality goes unnoticed not because it's unfathomable but because it's often deemed devoid of value, utility, and contributions to society's shared ambitions. This art project, however, aspires to delve into and meticulously document the collective experiences and emotions that have long been excluded from public attention and social discourse. (English translation of the text in the image below: "The Thermal Well Dwelling Incident in Beijing Is Not an Individual Case: Well Dwellers Keep It Secret, to Not Lose Their Shelters." 6th / 12 / 2013, at 08:54, the news is reported on People.cn. "Yesterday, Miss Quan came out from a thermal well which is her current accommodation, near Lidu Square, Chaoyang, Beijing." Photos by Yin Yafei, Xue Jun. 12/2013)